Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate Passes Despite Large Rebellion

The market is ‘now being dictated to by a government, which is almost like a communist state,’ said motorist campaigners.

New cars are parked at a dockyard in Grimsby, northern England, on Jan 30, 2009. Nigel Roddis/Reuters

Legislation requiring carmakers to produce an escalating minimum quota of electric vehicles passed despite Conservative 38 MPs rebelling against it.

On Monday evening, legislation bringing in the government’s Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) passed, which enforces an 80 percent target for electric vehicles as a percentage of new car sales by 2030.